The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved. - William Shakespeare
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation. - William Hutton
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood. - William Penn
A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty - Jean-Jacques Rousseau